Re: Summary of ETag related issues in RFC2518bis

On Dec 20, 2005, at 8:58 AM, Stefan Eissing wrote:
> Mathematically speaking if PUT(x) is the function in the server  
> that takes the client input and modifies it, so that a subsequent  
> GET(PUT(x)) defines the content a client gets back. We are talking  
> about the situation where x != GET(PUT(x)) because the other case  
> is trivial.

As the implementer of a WebDAV file system client, the whole idea of  
x != GET(PUT(x)) makes my head hurt. For file systems to work, they  
require x == GET(PUT(x)) if there have been no PUTs from other  
clients between the PUT and the GET.

- Jim

Received on Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:14:49 UTC